Full version of Kindernacht rendered for headphone simulation as composed for Ohrenoch Gallery and its loudspeaker installation in Neukoln, Berlin Sunday 31-07-2016 & 07-08-2016 2pm until 9pm

www.ohrenhoch.org/en/livestream.html

Sonntag, 07. August 2016, 14:00
Veranstaltungsort: ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen
Sparte: Experimentalmusik

Das ohrenhoch-Manifest WORDS 2016 - SOUNDAKTIVISMUS ist im 'ohrenhoch' an die Wand gepinnt und als Flyer erhältlich.

To hear on Sunday 31 July and 7 August 2016, from 2pm to 9pm:

KINDERNACHT or THE NIGHT OF THE CHILDREN
(for ohrenhoch, 2016, Premiere)
by Gisela Frick - Hassenberg (Chile)

Curator, loudspeaker installations: Knut Remond

Gisela Frick - Hassenberg on 'Kindernacht':

Kindernacht, or The Night of the Children is a 12’ composition inspired by the resilience of children who have faced and survived abuse from dictatorial states and warfare.

Kindernacht is arranged in three parts.

The first part is a processed bass-drone entitled The Invention of the Electric Barbed Wire (2’47”) and it is sourced from the initial magnetic silence of cassette tape. It was firstly processed as waveform in the shape of electric barbed wire and then pitch shifted in order to reach magnetic woofer sound.

The second part is entitled False March (3’03”) being a false march -or start- both in terms of general composition of the piece and also being a reversed sound archive.

The third part, Kindernacht: Guten Abend, Gute Nacht (9’25”) is a base organ and metronome improvisation with further arrangements of children’s choir voice samples of Chilean - German historical archives. It ends in otherworldly field recordings of whale songs -found in internet archive- as the voice of Nature overcoming the voices of violence.

This piece has been especially composed for Ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen Gallery located in Neukoln, Berlin and its sound design has considered the use of the cellar for playing The Invention of the Electric Barbed Wire and the main space for both False March and Kindernacht.

Audio Field Report no. 50 / Soundactivism 29:
Interview with Gisela Frick - Hassenberg by Knut Remond. Limited edition audio cassette, 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and heard on headphone in the ohrenhoch archive).

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